Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

• The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another press for consideration, or an explanation has been provided in the comments to the editor.
• The submission file is in the Microsoft Word, RTF, OpenDocument, or WordPerfect file format.
• Where available, URLs (HTML links/DOI links) for the references have been provided.
• The text is single-spaced, is formatted in 11-point Unicode font (Arial/Times New Roman), employs italics for emphasis rather than underlining (except with URL addresses), and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text with captions, titles, legends, axis titles and correct datasets at the appropriate points, rather than at the end of the manuscript.
• The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
• The high-resolution images, figures, tables, graphs, photographs, caricatures, etc., are 300 DPI (printing purposes) and 300 PPI (e-book/web purposes) as a JPEG/Adobe Illustrator or Adobe PhotoShop/PNG/EVG file of 1 MB or larger – clearly marked as Fig. 01, Chapter 01.
• The provided manuscript submission checklist has been checked against the final draft, signed, and returned to the editorial office at books@aosis.co.za.
• All copyrights have been cleared.